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Continue reading →: My 2 Favorite Election Campaign LaughsIF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY, BE SURE TO VOTE TODAY! GOP criticizes Harris for calling Trump ‘fascist’, but CNN ‘rogue’ control room highlights double standard
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Continue reading →: Behind the Scenes of a First Job: A Reporter’s TaleM y first job out of college was as a as a reporter for the Piqua (Ohio) Daily Call. And though the salary was higher than two other western Ohio newspapers I interviewed with, it was still ABYSMAL, which made me vulnerable to a work-related melodrama not of my own…
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Continue reading →: Barbs’ Cataract Adventures: A Cautionary TikTok TaleBarb, a spirited 70-year-old pool mascot, believes in unverified health remedies found on social media, such as using castor oil for cataracts. Despite a doctor’s advice on surgery, she insists her condition has improved. The narrative humorously highlights the absurdity of her claims and warns about the dangers of misinformation…
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Continue reading →: Miss Wear-Ever: A Journey of Self-ConfidenceMy mother, Wilma Jean (Porter) Clark graduated high school in 1945 and moved from her parents’ farm in Dayton, PA, to New Kensington, about an hour’s drive away. There she got a job in the secretarial pool at the Wear-Ever Aluminum plant, a subsidiary of ALCOA—the Aluminum Company of America,…
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Continue reading →: Surviving a Screaming Boss: My Internship StoryIn 1977, during a journalism internship, the author encountered a volatile boss, Betty Ann, who frequently screamed at employees. After a miscommunication regarding a package led to her public tirade, the author stood firm against her abuse and ultimately decided to quit the job, valuing self-respect over workplace fear.
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Continue reading →: Lessons from My Dad: Integrity Over ProfitIn a day when a convicted felon can become President, I hang my head in despair and get inspiration from my dad, Jack M. Clark Sr., who was once fired from a job because he REFUSED to break the law. Dad changed jobs when I was in fourth grade, and…
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Continue reading →: Lessons From a Shattered Robin’s EggMy earliest memory is from when I was around 3 years old. We had a blue spruce tree in our yard that had been a Christmas tree we bought balled-and-burlapped and then planted after the holidays. Dad came into the kitchen and announced to mom and I our tree had…
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Continue reading →: Neighborhood Secrets: Lessons on Tolerance #1Understanding neighborhood dynamics is tough enough as an adult but often lost on children, who may spend their lives wondering what was really going on. Take how bigotry operates, for example. Until I was 5, we lived across the street from Ron and Dolores Craig and their daughter Cindy in…
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Continue reading →: Following Jesus or Just Speeding?Leaving the grocery store last week, a car pulled out between our car and another vehicle going the opposite direction, nearly causing a three-way collision. We followed behind the offending car toward the stop sign where the parking lot tees into the feeder road for the highway. The driver ran…
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Continue reading →: Exploring the Meaning of Dreams: A Personal JourneyLet’s start with a dream (mine)… A friend invites me on an outing to Chicago. We travel by train to this big, noisy city and go through a gateway or door. On the other side, it’s perfectly quiet, outdoors, night-time, with a pristine view of the stars in all their…
Susan Clark Lawson
As journalist, business communicator, entrepreneur and teacher, Susan’s writing has appeared in a variety of newspapers, magazines, literary journals and coffee table books. Her creativity has been the anonymous force behind scores of brochures, newsletters, logos, annual reports and flyers.
As a high school publications adviser, her yearbooks won top national awards from both the National Scholastic Press Association and the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.
As a business communicator, she supervised employee publications for a Fortune 500 electric utility and eventually started her own successful writing and design business, WildCat Communications.
She earned accredited business communicator (ABC) status from the International Association of Business Communicators, for which she served as an international executive board member, tri-state district director and Indianapolis chapter president, among other roles. IABC International named Indianapolis Midsized Chapter of the Year for 1996, the year Susan was its president, and in 1998, the chapter reciprocated by naming Susan its Communicator of the Year.
In 2005 she trained with Amherst Writers & Artists and since then has led hundreds of supportive, generative creative-writing workshops, both in person and virtually, through libraries and in her home, employing AWA methods.
Now (mostly) retired, Susan lives with her husband of more than 35 years and their two sassy cats in a light-filled brick house on a quiet lake in Indiana, where all enjoy watching the wildlife. She’s an active volunteer with the local Purdue Extension Service and an Advanced Master Gardener.
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